The Mee, Jon creator author. text enk 2010 monographic eng

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1 online resource (134 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). Charles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film adaptations, as well as large numbers of students studying the Victorian novel. This lively and accessible introduction to Dickens focuses on the extraordinary diversity of his writing. Jon Mee discusses Dickens's novels, journalism and public performances, the historical contexts and his influence on other writers. In the process, five major themes emerge: Dickens the entertainer; Dickens and language; Dickens and London; Dickens, gender, and domesticity; and the question of adaptation, including Dickens's adaptations of his own work. These interrelated concerns allow readers to start making their own new connections between his famous and less widely read works and to appreciate fully the sheer imaginative richness of his writing, which particularly evokes the dizzying expansion of nineteenth-century London. Jon Mee. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). PR4588 .M44 2010 823/.8 9780511780646 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780646 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780646 UkCbUP 100519 20180107143413.0 CR9780511780646